Books like Dune Chronicles
30 science fiction books to read after Dune Chronicles, by Herbert, Frank, the closest match first.
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Dune Chronicles book 1 Start here
1. Dune
by Herbert, Frank
- Same series
- Same author
The whole series over time shows the colonization and taming of the wild planet Dune over thousands of years.
A blend of sci-fi and fantasy, Frank Herbert's Dune created a foundation for many of the themes in modern genre fiction. Its exploration of ecology, pacifism, and mysticism pairs with...
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Dune Chronicles book 2
2. Dune Messiah
by Herbert, Frank
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- Same author
Twelve years after the events of Dune, Paul Atreides rules the known universe as Emperor, and his Fremen warriors have carried a holy war across the stars. He sees what...
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Dune Chronicles book 3
3. Children Of Dune
by Herbert, Frank
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- Same author
Fifteen thousand years after Leto II's death, the remnants of the Bene Gesserit contend with the ruthless leaders of an alien culture to forge a new civilization and preserve the...
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Dune Chronicles book 4
4. God Emperor Of Dune
by Herbert, Frank
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- Same author
Leto II, God Emperor of Dune, trades his humanity for immortality and becomes the magnificent sandworm of Dune in a desperate attempt to save humankind.
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Dune Chronicles book 5
5. Heretics Of Dune
by Herbert, Frank
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Thousands of years after the death of God Emperor Leto II, the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune, now called Rakis
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Dune Chronicles book 6
6. Chapterhouse: Dune
by Herbert, Frank
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- Same author
Fifteen thousand years after Leto II's death, the remnants of the Bene Gesserit contend with the ruthless leaders of an alien culture to forge a new civilization and preserve the...
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Dune Chronicles book 7
7. Hunters Of Dune
by Herbert, Frank
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Fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres - dark counterparts of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood - Duncan Idaho, the military genius Bashar Miles Teg, a woman named Sheeana who can talk...
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Dune Chronicles book 8
8. Sandworms Of Dune
by Herbert, Frank
- Same series
- Same author
As the no-ship Ithaca flees through space, the heroes of HUNTERS OF DUNE finally meet the Enemy who followed the violent fanatics, the Honored Matres, back to their universe. The...
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Hyperion Cantos book 2
9. The Fall Of Hyperion
by Simmons, Dan
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A more recent example of a winning space opera series is the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. The series contains four novels and several short stories, and they've been wildly successful with fans and critics alike. In 1990 the first novel in the series, Hyperion, won both the Hugo and Locus Awards.
This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.
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Takeshi Kovacs book 3
10. Woken Furies
by Morgan, Richard K.
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Mixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic vision of an age when death is nearly meaningless, Richard K. Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal, mystery, and revenge, as...
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Gap book 1 Start here
11. The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story
by Donaldson, Stephen R.
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Angus Thermopyle is a vicious but unsuccessful pirate who walks in with a beautiful woman on his arm. She is Morn Hyland, a police officer until she met him. His...
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12. Old Man’s War Series
by John Scalzi
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Got popularity? I don't know if you can find a more popular science fiction writer right now. He's socially astute, spot on with his commentary and is nearly too cool...
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Culture book 1 Start here
13. Consider Phlebas
by Iain M. Banks
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A sprawling series with a well developed society complete with social norms, language, biology, artificial intelligences, and the list goes on.
Banks himself once described the plot of Consider Phlebas as: "a shipwrecked sailor falls in with a gang of pirates and goes in search of buried treasure." And that's precisely...
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14. Zone Of Thought
by Vernor Vinge
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Ever bought some electronic thing and two days later discovered it was already obsolete? Sucks. This whole idea about broken things is defined by the concept of The Singularity --...
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15. Ender Series
by Card, Orson Scott
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Ever read a book that is good in spite of its author's controversial reputation? Card has landed himself in a lot of hot water for his political commentary, primarily driven...
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16. The Uplift Saga
by Brin, David
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A series with a complex universe where politics can decide the fate of an entire race. Feudalism, bureaucracy, indentureship, international relations, ecology, there is a lot happening in this universe.
No science fiction list would be complete without the inclusion of a science fiction mystery that morphs into an action adventure. Published in 1987 Startide Rising won the Hugo, Nebula...
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Chanur book 1 Start here
17. The Pride Of Chanur
by Cherryh, C. J.
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Starts with Downbelow Station. The aliens are coming. The aliens are coming! Until you read Cherryh you haven't really read good aliens. She's got this peculiar gift for summoning aliens...
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18. Majipoor Series
by Silverberg, Robert
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At the core of all the best science fiction series is good story telling in one form or the other. I mean, who wants to read only about novel ideas...
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Night's Dawn book 1 Start here
19. The Reality Dysfunction
by Iii, David R. George
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Space is not the only void... In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a...
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Heechee Saga book 1 Start here
20. Gateway (1978)
by Pohl, Frederik
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Robinette Broadhead is rich, and he has a lot to feel guilty about. In sessions with his robot psychiatrist, he talks about how he got there: he won a lottery...
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21. Mote Series
by Niven, Larry
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and Jerry Pournelle. A far future story of first contact after human societies already span hundreds of star systems. This story explores alien biology, society, art and impacts on humanity's economics, politics, and religions.
Starts with A Mote in God's Eye, the award winning first book in the series of 2 with the 3rd book written by one of the authors. Nothing will prepare...
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22. Miles Vorkosigan Saga
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
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There's a time for everything. There's a time to read heavy novels filled with grand ideas and space, the universe, and the destiny of mankind through Hard Science Fiction. There's...
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Hainish Cycle book 4
23. The Left Hand Of Darkness (1970)
by Guin, Ursula K. Le
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Pacifism and a anarchy—both have merits.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin won the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel.One of the best examples of science fiction in the genre.
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Oxford Time Travel book 1 Start here
24. Doomsday Book (1993)
by Willis, Connie
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In 2054, Oxford historians send students back in time to study the past. Kivrin Engle, a young historian, is sent to the English countryside in 1320. But a technician falls...
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Mars Trilogy book 1 Start here
25. Red Mars (1994)
by Robinson, Kim Stanley
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A mission is launched to terraform Mars in this scientific epic.
In 2026, a hundred colonists set off on the first long voyage to Mars. Among them are John Boone, the first man to walk on the planet, and his rival...
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Space Odyssey book 1 Start here
26. 2001 A Space Odyssey
by Clarke, Arthur C.
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This novel is an epic story, a story in which two astronauts must fight for their lives, against an extraordinary computer named HAL.
The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick’s immortal film—and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas...
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27. Lilith's Brood
by Butler, Octavia E.
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Science fiction isnât always meant to be comfortable or easy reading. Quite the opposite, any literature so based on ideas must challenge the reader, make them think differently (if only...
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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy book 1 Start here
28. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
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It began as a radio series on the BBC. It was quickly adapted for television (with many of the same cast), and much later there came a film version (though...
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29. Foundation
by Asimov, Isaac
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Some softer elements, like FTL and antigrav cars, but otherwise a rational series.
Book Flap Description One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive...
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Ringworld book 1 Start here
30. Ringworld (1971)
by Niven, Larry
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One of the most famous books of the genre, that follows the pros and cons of living on a spinning ring instead of a round planet. The fact that makes this book so famous is that after the author’s ideas were proven impracticable, he wrote a sequel explaining the inadequacies.
In the year 2850, Louis Wu turns 200 and is bored with life. Then a two-headed alien Puppeteer called Nessus offers him a job: join a small expedition to a...
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